In June of 2005, The Professor and I moved back to Fort Worth to begin the PhD program. The apartment we moved to had a huge living room. Our wonderul futon was just eaten up by all the floor space. After much thought The Professor and I decided we needed a recliner. However, there was no money in the budget for a nice new recliner at the time, so we decided to try to find a nice used one. Our thought was we just needed to find one that could make it until we could afford a new one. So, the search began. After about 2 weeks of searching we found it! There was a Seminary student who had decided there was not enough room in their apartment for their recliner (imagine that - Seminary housing too small - hahaha). The recliner was in great condition and the price was perfect - $25. So, the recliner came to live with us.
The first night we had it The Professor decided to put it to work. So, he sat down and pulled the lever to lean it back. As he did that he also leaned on the back some, to help move it. However, the back of the recliner never stopped. In fact, the back fell off and The Professor fell out of the recliner backwards. I laughed so hard! Almost as hard as I am laughing right now as I type. (That moment will always be a fun memory for us) Anyway, he got up and looked at the chair only to realize that there was a screw missing. He figured out what screw he needed and headed off to Walmart. He found the screw for 86 cents and fixed the recliner.
The $25.86 recliner has been good to us for almost 2 years. However, he is tired now and ready to be replaced. I do not even sit in him anymore, because I do not want to be the one sitting in him when he completely dies, if you know what I mean.
Needless to say we are now officially recliner/nice chair shopping. Our prayer is to find one before the $25.86 recliner dies. However, The Professor is a thinker, looker, and low cost buyer when it comes to shopping, so we have many more recliners to view and sit in before the decision is made. Who knows how this will end? Will we be able to replace the $25.86 recliner before he dies? I will let you know!
5 comments:
That is definitely one of the funniest things I have read in a while! Definitely a memory maker! We had a recliner from the time Anna was born until we remodeled a couple of years ago. It, too, was ready to retire. Those funny stories are what make special family memories!
Glad you and the Prof are back together. :-) However, we miss you already!
Too bad that you couldn't have had an inkling about needing a new chair while you were here. I am sure junebug would have loved to have obliged you with TWO rockers. Not the same as a recliner, but I am sure the price would have been right. :-)
Oh well, enjoy chair shopping! Maybe the new one will have just as fun memories.
oh, i will miss the recliner...i have held both of your babies in that chair! oh yeah, and i was spit up on in that chair, too....so, nevermind...go ahead and get rid of it!
new chair...new memories!
the prof and i are definitely glad to be back together! we miss you guys too.
as for the rockers, junebug can keep them.
$25.86 recliners are what families are made of. but like bb says new chair new memories all good:) we miss ya
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